Session 5

Science of Happiness,

Session 5 Peak Experience, Flow, Being in the Zone, Outliers

Lord of the Flies

In the last session we have spoken about meaning and its importance in our life...that meaning is to be happy, according to Aristotle and other majestic thinkers.

In the previous talks, calling have been mentioned and the rules of happiness...some of them

-          Let us mention highlights from previous sessions                           screen

It is extraordinary to know that not only we can reach happiness, but we can also get to the very top and enjoy:

-          Peak experiences, Being in the Zone, Flow

-          Calling, Outliers

This is connected with Calling and as we shall see, with what the magnificent psychologist Malcolm Gladwell has identified in:

-          Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell and

-          Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In other words, once you know what the rules of the game of Ultimate Happiness are, you can use then in your daily activity, which should be your calling, and with three hours per day, you become one of the best

-          10,000 hours in 10 years

-          Lord of the Flies by William Golding

-          If there are no rules, you have nothing

Working for many years to find out what brings peak experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has identified a few conditions sine qua non

-          Goals

-          Feedback, game of tennis

Magic Mountain and the story there

Golding